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I love my boyfriend but spending nights with him is hard, I’ve been suffering with insomnia for months now it has improved a little but it goes up and down all the time, right now I can’t sleep more than 5 hours (with 50mg of trazodone) it seems, however my partner falls asleep in literal seconds, sleeps through the night and can sleep 12 hours if you let him, it makes me feel so defeated even though it has nothing to do with me :(

This happens a lot when I wake up super early after 4-5 hours of sleep and try to catch more, basically I lay there with my eyes closed and I have dream like thoughts.. but feel fully aware of everything and doesn’t feel like sleep, but maybe it is? It’s strange

Does anyone else get bad side effects on 50mg of trazodone, it works well at helping me sleep but the next day I feel like dog shit, head pressure, disassociated, headaches, dizziness, fatigue almost feels like a night of no sleep lol

I’m really worried because I read online about the respiratory infections baby guinea pigs can have especially from petco it said, I got 2 at the same time both females, one is completely fine, but the other one I just noticed is sneezing a lot, she has no other symptoms, she was popcorning like crazy, eating and drinking, and no discharge, so maybe it’s something else but I can’t help but think the worse, when we bought the piggies they say there is a 30 day policy if the something happens, that if they got sick you can bring them back for a refund and they will give them vet care? I’m not sure if I should bring her back I don’t know if I trust them but I don’t know what to do

For the last few nights I’ve been struggling really bad, trazodone does an amazing job at helping me fall asleep however I always wake up at 1am after 2-4 hours of sleep and initially I feel fine but after laying there with my eyes closed for what feels like forever, I get frustrated and anxious and then this goes on until son rise, and it’s not something I can control, I feel the anxiety in my stomach and it’s scary, if I’m lucky I’ll get a glimpse of 1-2 more hours of very light sleep early morning but I have no idea how to fix this

I’m honestly at my last resort for all of this. I’ve been dealing with it for months at this point. It was pretty bad at one point. I was only sleeping 1 to 3 hours sometimes nothing in for a month. It was good while I was using trazodone, but no medication is perfect and that gave me side effects so I tried to come off of it and it was not pretty. It triggered a sleeping anxiety loop for me and at this point I know the root of my insomnia is stress and anxiety specifically anxiety about not sleeping and all those catastrophic thoughts. I’ve watched almost every single video on the sleep coach school channel, and it has helped me a lot, but my I have ADHD, OCD, an anxiety disorder, and I find it very hard to try and manage those things without medication. I’ve tried so many different medication’s, I have tried three different SSRI’s but two of them. I only did for a day each because I was so freaked out about side effects. I think I was actually giving myself them. And one of them I actually went through with a full week, but it definitely made my anxiety worse and I couldn’t push through. Who knows what would’ve happened if I did push through it might’ve solved a lot for me. I’m just wondering if anyone on here has found success in taking antidepressants and if it has improved their sleep.

My emotions get really aggressive during that time of the month and I think it might be leading to sleep disturbances. I mean, I have sleep disturbances even off of it, but I think it makes it worse.

F (21) here, I’ll try to keep my long story short, my insomnia started 4 months ago, I’ve always been a hypochondriac and have been diagnosed with, OCD, ADHD, and Anxiety disorder, my nervous system just broke and I was having crazy symptoms and though I was going to die, this led me to the ER twice, that’s when it started, 1-3 hours a night sometimes nothing for around 1-2 months straight, I went to the mental health crisis center multiple times, I went to my primary care and starting trying out medications most of them didn’t work which made my insomnia and anxiety even worse, I finally found temazepam, which gave me a full week of relief, and then I switched to trazodone, for a month I had pretty consistent nights, it did give me some side effects tho and I was feeling confident for once so I started to taper (bad choice), it started with two rough nights of sleep, and then only 2 hours which triggered old patterns and dark thoughts and so I did my normal dose last night (50mg) and still struggled really bad, I’ve been feeling depressed all day, defeated, tired, I thought I had finally beaten it, but now I feel like I’m falling back in the hole, it has destroyed my life, I dropped out of school, I’ve had so many arguments with my family/partner, I don’t have a job and I have an extreme fear of this continuing. any support, positive stories, or advice is helpful, thank you

F (21) here, I’ll try to keep my long story short, my insomnia started 4 months ago, I’ve always been a hypochondriac and have been diagnosed with, OCD, ADHD, and Anxiety disorder, my nervous system just broke and I was having crazy symptoms and though I was going to die, this led me to the ER twice, that’s when it started, 1-3 hours a night sometimes nothing for around 1-2 months straight, I went to the mental health crisis center multiple times, I went to my primary care and starting trying out medications most of them didn’t work which made my insomnia and anxiety even worse, I finally found temazepam, which gave me a full week of relief, and then I switched to trazodone, for a month I had pretty consistent nights, it did give me some side effects tho and I was feeling confident for once so I started to taper (bad choice), it started with two rough nights of sleep, and then only 2 hours which triggered old patterns and dark thoughts and so I did my normal dose last night (50mg) and still struggled really bad, I’ve been feeling depressed all day, defeated, tired, I thought I had finally beaten it, but now I feel like I’m falling back in the hole, it has destroyed my life, I dropped out of school, I’ve had so many arguments with my family/partner, I don’t have a job and I have an extreme fear of this continuing. any support, positive stories, or advice is helpful, thank you

F (21) here, I’ll try to keep my long story short, my insomnia started 4 months ago, I’ve always been a hypochondriac and have been diagnosed with, OCD, ADHD, and Anxiety disorder, my nervous system just broke and I was having crazy symptoms and though I was going to die, this led me to the ER twice, that’s when it started, 1-3 hours a night sometimes nothing for around 1-2 months straight, I went to the mental health crisis center multiple times, I went to my primary care and starting trying out medications most of them didn’t work which made my insomnia and anxiety even worse, I finally found temazepam, which gave me a full week of relief, and then I switched to trazodone, for a month I had pretty consistent nights, it did give me some side effects tho and I was feeling confident for once so I started to taper (bad choice), it started with two rough nights of sleep, and then only 2 hours which triggered old patterns and dark thoughts and so I did my normal dose last night (50mg) and still struggled really bad, I’ve been feeling depressed all day, defeated, tired, I thought I had finally beaten it, but now I feel like I’m falling back in the hole, it has destroyed my life, I dropped out of school, I’ve had so many arguments with my family/partner, I don’t have a job and I have an extreme fear of this continuing. any support, positive stories, or advice is helpful, thank you

Mine was rough, I was doing good for about a month and now Im having some trouble again, so I just wanna hear from everyone

I went through a severe insomnia episode only sleeping 1-3 hours for over a month, then for a month I finally found stability in trazodone, I was doing a lot better mentally, the trazodone did cause some side effects for me so me and my doctor started a taper, I went from 50 mg to 25, the first two nights were okay I slept 4-5 hours, but the 3rd night I was up almost the whole night and so last night I took my 50mg again and initially it worked I fell asleep at around 9:30 but was up wide awake at 1am and have been tossing and turning ever since, it is now almost 4am and I feel defeated I just wanna cry, that was the darkest place in my life and I feel that extreme fear coming back, I feel so anxious, and hopeless

Was doing good for a month on trazodone, and tried to taper off, night 3 of going from 50mg to 25mg I barley slept too hours and they triggered a ton of anxiety about tonight, I just feel so anxious about it, I’m not sure what to do

So I’ve heard of CBT-I but I’ve never really given it a try because before this episode of insomnia, I did the opposite of what it recommends and I slept fine. But a specific teaching from that is getting out of bed if you’re unable to fall asleep or if you’re anxious and struggling because you don’t want to have negative associations with your bed and I’ve never actually tried this so I’m wondering if anyone has actually found it very helpful and if it’s worth a try?

I’m in the process of tapering trazodone the last two nights have been rough but not horrible 4-5 hours but last night was bad, I didn’t fall asleep until 3:30am woke up at 5:50am I feel so defeated, I did have a ton of anxiety last night clock watching, but I know this anxiety sleep loop I’ve been in it and I’m scared of going back there, what are some tips to prevent that?

Well I was doing good for a month using trazodone, so I thought I’d try and taper off, my 3rd night of going from 50mg to 25mg and I might be up the whole entire night which is horrific because just a month ago I went through a severe episode of only sleeping 1-3 hours for a full month and I never wanna visit that place again, I guess the next night I’ll go back to 50mg and hopefully it works again I’m trying not to freak out honestly

My insomnia struggle started 4 months ago now, started after ER visits and high stress situations, first month was the worst, only was sleeping 1-3 hours some nights nothing, I had to take a break off of school, then I began working down the medication route, I tried over 15 different ones from antidepressants, to benzos, to z drugs, most of them didn’t work until I found temazepam, took it for a week gave me some well needed relief, however you cannot use that long term so my doctor switched me to trazodone, which took some time to work, I took it for a month and my sleep was pretty consistent, but it gave me bad headaches and dizziness so I’m starting the process of tapering, which led me back to crappy nights, and now I feel stuck again, i dropped out of school because they couldn’t keep extending my break, this is putting strain on my relationship, it’s just a huge mess, and I just feel so defeated

I’ve been taking trazodone for a month now, first 2 weeks 25mg, was still waking up in the middle of the night so I upped it to 50mg two weeks ago, but I can’t stand the side effects, headaches, dizziness, fatigue, so I’m trying to come off of it 2 nights ago I dropped the dose back to 25 mg and have had sleep disturbances, I’ve only slept around 4-5 very fragmented hours the last 2 nights and I just was wondering when does it get better?

Long story short, I had a huge healthcare and severe insomnia struggle for three months. The first month was barely sleeping only one to three hours and I rotated through 15 different medications from antidepressants to benzodiazepines to Z drugs, finally found some relief using restoril for a week and then switched to trazodone which I’ve been using for a month straight and it’s been pretty consistent. However, I do suffer from side effects in the day like severe headache and dizziness so I wanna start the process of coming off. it is scary. I haven’t been on it for super long but my plan that I made with my psychiatrist is to go from 50 mg to 25 and do that for two weeks and then after that alternate between using it for half the week and not using it and then he said I should be off. I know this probably won’t be easy, but I’m wondering if anyone else has come off of it successfully.